Cetacea
The keratinized plates found in Mysticeti whales that replace their teeth.
What are baleen plates?
The order of even-toed ungulates.
What is Artiodactyla?
The reason that the theory of island biogeography applies to land-locked states, specifically Indiana.
What is habitat fragmentation / the sea of corn?
Organisms that are simpler.
What are smaller organisms?
What is a straw?
Number of nares in Mysticeti.
What is 2?
The more successful order of ungulates.
What is Artiodactyla?
Islands that originated from volcanic rock and coral, such as Hawaii, Galapagos, and Aleutians.
What are oceanic islands?
The change that causes an organism to have more skin AND more innards.
What is growing larger?
The classification of Proboscidea based on what they eat.
What is herbivorous?
Platanistidae (freshwater dolphins), Monodontidae (narwhal and beluga), Phocoenidae (porpoises), Physeteridae (sperm whale), Delphinidae (dolphins), Ziphiidae (beaked whales), Iniidae (Baiji)
The three recent families in Perissodactyla.
What are Equidae, Tapiridae, and Rhinocerotidae?
What is the Palearctic?
The factor that skin grows at.
What is the square?
The number of trunk fingers that Asiatic elephants (Elephas maximus) have.
What is 1 finger?
Flow of air or water over a surface.
What is laminar flow?
A sub-order of Artiodactyla that is characterized by a 3 chambered stomach and a ruminant digestive system.
What are Tylopoda (camels)?
The type of island that has the most biodiversity.
What is a large, near island?
The benefits of being a larger organism.
What are:
a) mass-specific reduction in metabolsim
b) lower cost for locomtion
c) lower predation with larger size
d) larger offspring
e) able to catch larger prey
f) larger species often outcompete smaller ones
The number of toes on Asiatic elephants (Elephas maximus)?
What is 4/4 or 5?
An oily substance in the head of some whales that is less dense than water as a liquid and more dense than water as a solid. Helps the whales to control their bouyancy.
What is Spermaceti?
The oldest part of a horn.
What is the tip?
This quality of islands determines the extinction rate.
What is size?
The fixed biological limitations on size (both large and small).
What is:
a) Bone and tendon strength
b) Muscle fiber strength
c) Lung volume to body size
d) Hematocrit
e) Red blood cell size
The scientific name of the mastodon.
What is Mammut americanum?